Heroic

Myriad Reality

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For any particular reason?

@Legend

A large number of them. Less are born with the affinity these days than there used to be. It’s incredibly rare. So as many die to the broad dangers of Existence at large, and to other users themselves, there’s not really replacements, as cold as that phrasing sounds.

Myriad Reality

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How did that occur?

@Legend

A dwindling population of users and mass loss of knowledge and history.

Myriad Reality

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Have there been significant advances since Garsun's era?

@Legend

It’s more likely there was regression, unfortunately.

Myriad Reality

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Doyens? And please, feel free to give me a call at any time.

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That would depend on the request. I like to consider myself useful beyond pure combat.

@Legend

Right now, my pure focus will be to organize the takedown of Garsun.

Myriad Reality

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If I can be of any aid to your team, please don’t hesitate to let me know. Despite my unfamiliarity with the elements, technology happens to be one of my domains.

@Legend

I won’t ever ask anyone outside of the collective of doyens, and occasionally Ridge, since he’s trusted family and knows just about everything that happens anyway. But I won’t turn you down either.

Myriad Reality

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How difficult is direct engagement likely to be?

@Legend

Hard to say. He was a more than capable doyen, a few thousand years ago. I suppose we’ll see if modern masters are any better or worse than they were then.

Myriad Reality

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Are you bringing reinforcements?

@Legend

I intend to. Who that will be is obviously still undecided, but I will likely not be going alone.

Myriad Reality

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Ah, the latter reasoning is understandable. Although it does pose a constant danger now.

@Legend

Which is why I plan to address him very shortly. And he'll likely be expecting a visit.

Myriad Reality

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Special case how?

@Legend

It’s externally impossible to manipulate. There’s a lot of spacial manipulation that goes into its operation, and Garsun designed a very redundant system controlled from remote locations that have never been found to protect it. It was also explicitly disabled as opposed to destroyed as an act of historical preservation. In the grand scheme of Existence, historical sites and records of Elements and related important knowledge is very hard to come by. Most didn’t want to see it just wiped out, when eventually it could be possible to, say dredge up archives in his technology, or reverse-engineer fully functioning technology from it.

Myriad Reality

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Then it may be possible to individually secure or destroy them all?

@Legend

For the most part, they are. The tower you visited is a special case, on just about every front.